Erasmus Lamat Bud Dieudonne Jr., 86, a real estate appraiser and licensed broker, died of acute coronary syndrome Feb. 20 at his
home in Rockville.
Mr. Dieudonne was born in Washington and graduated from McKinley Technical High School in the late 1930s. He was a member of the
track and field team at the University of Maryland, where he received his bachelor's degree in economics in 1940.
Although he volunteered for the Army Air Corps at the outbreak of World War II and had soloed as a pilot, he was told his eyesight was
insufficient, so he became a purchasing agent for a munitions company. Desperate to be more directly involved in the war effort, he
appealed to his father, a 30-year Navy veteran, to use whatever pull he had. One of his father's friends was Adm. Ernest J. King, then chief of
naval operations. Mr. Dieudonne was sworn in to the Navy in 1943.
Trained in communications and radar, he served aboard submarines in the Pacific and completed three war patrols aboard the USS
Tautog, including one in which the ship received a Navy Unit Citation. His last assignment was aboard the USS Diablo.
After leaving military service in 1946, Mr. Dieudonne founded Woodside Realty in Silver Spring. His business prospered as homes sprung
up in new subdivisions throughout the area. He also built numerous houses in Bladensburg, Cheverly and other area communities.
He turned over the day-to-day operation of Woodside Realty to his brother in 1955 and started appraising full time. He also taught real
estate and appraisal courses at Southwestern University, Catholic University and elsewhere.
He was a member of the International Right of Way Association and the Montgomery County Association of Realtors and a life member of
the Appraisal Institute. He held an active broker's license at the time of his death, and Woodside Realty was still in business.
He was a past president of both the Silver Spring Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Silver Spring Rotary Club. He also served on the
board of Grace Episcopal Day School and had been a member of Grace Episcopal Church in Silver Spring for 55 years. A golfer and
yachtsman, he was a longtime member of Congressional Country Club and a former member of the Kent Island and Chesapeake yacht
clubs.
His first wife, Nancy Miller Dieudonne, died in 1982. A son, Carroll Stephen Dieudonne, was killed in action in Vietnam in 1968.
Survivors include his wife of 18 years, Barbara Dieudonne of Rockville; five children from his first marriage, Julianna Rottkamp of Annapolis,
Mary Frantz of Chapel Hill, N.C., Nancy Fox of Bel Air, Md., Christine Waddell of Columbia and Matthew Dieudonne of Columbia; a
stepdaughter from his second marriage, Kunnigunda Biener of Damascus; 10 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.